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Who is the support team?

July 26, 2004by Neil Turner

Dear user of neilturner.me.uk,
Your account has been used to send a huge amount of junk email messages during the last week.
Most likely your computer was infected by a recent virus and now runs a trojaned proxy server.
Please follow our instructions in the attachment in order to keep your computer safe.
Virtually yours,
The neilturner.me.uk support team.

I know this message is caused by a virus but it did amuse me considering I am the neilturner.me.uk support team. incidentally this is a relatively new MyDoom variant (variant M) – when I first scanned the attachment with the July 21st definitions no virus was found, but scanning again with July 26th definitions found it. Still, I’m trying to work out why the ‘instructions’ for fixing my ‘spam problem’ would be in a screensaver.

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A geek from Yorkshire who writes about his Mac, iPhone, social media, computing in general and anything else that takes his fancy. Has a computing degree and works in an admin/marketing job at a university, and lives with his wife and baby daughter in a small town in a valley.